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Almost every major airline has its shopping portal, which is an excellent way to pick some extra miles while you shop for everyday items. There are various strategies you can use to maximize your earnings from airline shopping portals. Below are some of the major airlines and their shopping portals:

Maximizing Your Earning

One of the best ways to maximize your earning is to use the reward comparison site such as evreward. Just head over to evreward, and enter the name of the retailer with which you want to shop.

If for example, you wanted to purchase an item from Macy's just enter Macy's and hit enter. The search will return all the different programs that are partnered with Macy's and what your earning rates would be.

In the aforementioned case, your best option might be Spirit Airlines, as opposed to the American portal which would only earn you 3 miles per dollar. Maybe you don't want Spirit miles, so you'd pick American — but the options and listings are there to choose.

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I say it all the time, portals are the easiest way to rack up miles. Check CashBackMonitor and the others, watch for increased miles, and buy. For big purchases you know you’re going to be getting (appliances, etc), they can add up. Especially if you pair it with something like the Back to School promos many are running now, where you can add 2,000+ miles for certain spending.

Just make sure for smaller, every day purchases that you’re getting a deal since you often can’t stack non-site promo codes. It’s better (IMHO) to save 20% off the price, than get back, say, 5% in miles.

Thank you. I just went to evreward and googled a jetblue shopping portal. I didn’t realize that JetBlue had a shopping portal. I will definitely be using these portals. I’m pretty low on Jetblue miles. And I will use other shopping portals to reset my miles expiration dates.

Cashbackmonitor is great, but one should always check at least a couple of the sites listed. I don’t think any single one of these is always 100% complete, or 100% accurate. Actually, I often find Evreward to be the least reliable, in terms of completeness of portal listings, and current-ness of offers. I prefer the Webflyer Mileage Mall Search, when looking specifically for travel partner portal offers.

I use Cashbackmonitor more often than evrewards now, but they both are essentially the same. You can set up an account and choose to customize your searches on cashbackmonitor to reflect only the programs you’re enrolled in.

AAdvantage eshopping is currently running an “up to 2,000 bonus miles” promotion. Be wary, though, of shopping through their portal, because I’ve noticed often that the site they redirect you is a different version of the store’s website and has higher prices than if you were to just go to that website and not shop through the AA portal (but forego earning the bonus miles). An example would be if you went to 1800flowers.com, you can use Shoprunner for free shipping, discount codes and generally just pay lower prices in general than if you were to click through the AA eshopping portal to 1-800-flowers. You might earn 1,000 miles, but you’re paying for them via higher prices. This doesn’t appear to happen with links to brick-and-mortar stores like Home Depot or Walmart.

Alternately, it is a major pain to track these purchases through the shopping portals to make sure that they credit. Aeroplan has almost non existent (electronic) customer service and I’ve been back and forth with Alaska Mileage Plan several times without success. Almost not worth my time following up if it isn’t automatic…

Great article. I agree with the cashbackmonitor shout outs. Helps to maximize points and determine which portal to use. Just be weary of JB Amazon I def do it correct and don’t always receive the points.

I was just thinking about this the other day while I was at a Marshalls store… united offers the MileagePlus X which most stores allow you to purchase gift cards as payment. If you use MPX to purchase a gift card and then use it to shop on portals then you would be double dipping.

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